Opening
Please watch the Empathy Video below.
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Please engage in the activity, PlaySpent, and then comment on your experience of the activity here.
What?
Often times we see the students at St. Ignatius in their zones. It is easily to categorize the students as "at-risk-youth," or examine students one-dimensionally, as a student, failing to examine and understand the cura personalis, the care for the whole/entire person.
In the video, St. Ignatius and Cristo Rey alumnus, Elijah Miles, discusses the role of the teacher (mentor, in our case) for urban youth. He, as a summer intern for Teach for America, is speaking to individuals with the same goal that we have at CCSJ. |
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So What?
It goes without saying that you all have not started service until 30 March 2016, with literally 3 or so weeks left to mentor. In the history of SC-ing, we have never started service this late. Thinking critically on this, students would have had to go almost an entire semester without mentors, so this calls into question, what is our role at St. Ignatius? Obviously, students have held it down without us. It goes without saying that a week of homework help still leaves the student on his own M, T, Th, and F. Some of you have noted the difference in management and climate in mentoring at SILA. Briefly comment on 1) how it feels to start service this late in the game and 2) any difference in mentoring climate (is it allowing the students to be them, or is it one-dimensional?).
Now What? and Closing
Write a letter to yourself. In this letter, include what you perceive your role to be as a mentor at St. Ignatius. This semester showed us that the students can last and thrive academically without our presence on Wednesdays. So, when we go to service, is it because we need SILA or is it because SILA needs us? Write about how you will mentor at SILA in these remaining weeks, understanding that our roles as mentors has been distorted.
Please drop this letter off at CCSJ no later than Wednesday, April 6, 2015 at 11pm. As a note, failure to submit this reflection will result in a one-on-one meeting with me and/or my supervisor.
Please drop this letter off at CCSJ no later than Wednesday, April 6, 2015 at 11pm. As a note, failure to submit this reflection will result in a one-on-one meeting with me and/or my supervisor.